BYU's super coach Diljeet Taylor joined to talk about her rise to the top of the coaching ranks.
BYU's super coach Diljeet Taylor joined to talk about her rise to the top of the coaching ranks.
Great interview with Diljeet Taylor. You asked a lot of the questions that I was interested in, such as the recruiting pros and cons, why she turned down Oregon and Stanford, etc.
Excellent interview. I was hoping you'd ask what was wrong with Oregon and Stanford such that she turned them down, without totally turning the focus away from what was right at BYU for her to turn the program around and get it back to where it once was. Now, you might have pressed her with a follow-up question but her positive answer about BYU suggested that it was the lack of control and not good relationships with the AD and/or possibly the track coaches at Oregon and Stanford that led her to turn down the latter, her dream job, in a diverse area. From the interview, it became very clear, though, that she is a unique personality with a special relationship with her team such that her success is founded on the culture that she facilitates, not the particular training. She didn't say this time but from the NCAA interview, it seems that her relationship with her athletes is such that she knows when they are healthy and can push and when not to, that she emphasizes health and good nutrition, rather than weight consciousness and running them into the ground. And of course she has altitude to help. Finally, she said that the no drinking/drugs policy is very helpful because we know very well that lack of sleep and partying, along with over-training, are the primary reasons NCAA runners stagnate, regress, or get injured.
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